Exit poll: The post referendum thread. No electioneering.

Itssoeasy · 26-05-2018 03:28PM

Mattie taking shots at the health service and the cervical screening issue is a serious issue but not connected to the 8th amendment vote. Why is it allowed to be used as a stick to beat the health service with ?

neonsofa · 26-05-2018 03:29PM

Omackeral wrote: »

I just wanted to say thicks and ticks

Never mind I'm thick

Movementarian · 26-05-2018 03:30PM

Shurimgreat wrote: »

I think comments like this are beyond the pale.

You have zero moral high ground. You have constantly demeaned women on here by spouting nonsense that they will be seeming abortions for no reason. Wittering on about how people will be murdering babies. You are a hypocrit of the highest order.

Tippex · 26-05-2018 03:30PM

Amalgam wrote: »

If only your Mother would have had the luxury of choice (and the gift of hindsight) back then, this thread would be shorter, if nothing else..

Jesus I haven’t read the other comments but thats a low unneccessary comment to make

Itssoeasy · 26-05-2018 03:32PM

What did cathriona perry do to the Chiefs in RTÉ to be sent to interview Ronan Mullen in Roscommon ? I got the feeling she was the golden girl in the national broadcaster ?

Itssoeasy · 26-05-2018 03:32PM

What did cathriona perry do to the Chiefs in RTÉ to be sent to interview Ronan Mullen in Roscommon ? I got the feeling she was the golden girl in the national broadcaster ?

Deusexmachina · 26-05-2018 03:33PM

Look, I earlier expressed my pride and delight that the yes side has won emphatically.

Reading some of the sneering triumpalist (and frankly immature) commments on here from some of the Yes voters is making me feel very queasy.

This is not a time for slagging people off or for doing a lap of the stadium with your shirt off!!

Itssoeasy · 26-05-2018 03:34PM

Donegal looks like it's going to vote no. I mean if we put back the railways will they vote yes in more referendum ?

Billy86 · 26-05-2018 03:36PM

Movementarian wrote: »

You have zero moral high ground. You have constantly demeaned women on here by spouting nonsense that they will be seeming abortions for no reason. Wittering on about how people will be murdering babies. You are a hypocrit of the highest order.

Saying someone should have been aborted is a pretty sh*tty thing to say regardless of what side of the debate people are on - no campaigners doing so on the streets in the last few days did them a good deal of damage.

It's not only insulting to that person, but to the types of children I see in my job who actually might have been better off aborted (and what I mean by that is: unloved, unwanted, "rape babies", kids used as nothing more than a piggy bank with the welfare, treated like dirt, massive psychological issues, often heavily disabled from their parents' substance abuse issues during pregnancy, and literally a high suicide risk their whole lives except that many of them are not physically capable of suicide due to those same disabilities).

blueser · 26-05-2018 03:36PM

Deusexmachina wrote: »

Look, I earlier expressed my pride and delight that the yes side has won emphatically.

Reading some of the sneering triumpalist (and frankly immature) commments on here from some of the Yes voters is making me feel very queasy.

This is not a time for slagging people off or for doing a lap of the stadium with your shirt off!!

Not as bad as some of the stuff posted on here by a 'no' supporter.

Shurimgreat · 26-05-2018 03:36PM

Movementarian wrote: »

You have zero moral high ground. You have constantly demeaned women on here by spouting nonsense that they will be seeming abortions for no reason. Wittering on about how people will be murdering babies. You are a hypocrit of the highest order.

I have never stooped to saying I think it would have been a good idea if other posters were aborted. Most have tried to keep the debate mature and civilised. A small few have resorted to childish insults.

Deusexmachina · 26-05-2018 03:37PM

blueser wrote: »

Not as bad as some of the stuff posted on here by a 'no' supporter.

and that makes it alright?

CruelCoin · 26-05-2018 03:37PM

Roscommon-Galway.
57.2% yes vs 42.8% no.

One of the lowest rates.

What is it with the whesht and norn-iron counties being a bit backwards?

Shurimgreat · 26-05-2018 03:39PM

Deusexmachina wrote: »

Look, I earlier expressed my pride and delight that the yes side has won emphatically.

Reading some of the sneering triumpalist (and frankly immature) commments on here from some of the Yes voters is making me feel very queasy.

This is not a time for slagging people off or for doing a lap of the stadium with your shirt off!!

Agreed and good to hear it from a yes voter.

joe40 · 26-05-2018 03:40PM

Benteke wrote: »

Donegal letting the country down again, I expect nothing more from the backward county

Thats not called for and is just an ignorant statement.
Nearly 50% voted yes, more in the urban centres. Donegal is a big county with a large rural population that has suffered terribly from depopulation.
Plenty of people in Donegal voted yes.
However the demographics are such that close to 50% is very good and a sign of real progress.
I like living in Donegal, it can be a great place

blueser · 26-05-2018 03:41PM

Deusexmachina wrote: »

and that makes it alright?

Where did I say that?

CruelCoin · 26-05-2018 03:41PM

Shurimgreat wrote: »

Agreed and good to hear it from a yes voter.

Is it not being a sore loser though?

"Don't celebrate too hard lads, you'll hurt my feelings".

We've moved on from mothers dying unessecarily and you don't want celebrations?

Itssoeasy · 26-05-2018 03:41PM

Anyone else watching RTÉ ? I didnt get her name but she seemed to be saying that members of the committee told her how she vote. And MMOC told them to go away.

Deusexmachina · 26-05-2018 03:42PM

blueser wrote: »

Where did I say that?

you referenced other comments in justification.

Necro · 26-05-2018 03:42PM

enda1 wrote:

If the foetus reaches a viable age and is given birth to, then it is a baby. And then the father does have a say.

Lol. You'd wanna check the legislation for unmarried couples before making such a bold statement.

Fathers have fcuk all rights unless married. It's at the woman's behest.
Maybe a progressive society like Ireland is showing itself to be should look at this issue next....

But that's a different argument.

ricero · 26-05-2018 03:42PM

Time to legalize the weed next

CruelCoin · 26-05-2018 03:43PM

joe40 wrote: »

Thats not called for and is just an ignorant statement.
Nearly 50% voted yes, more in the urban centres. Donegal is a big county with a large rural population that has suffered terribly from depopulation.
Plenty of people in Donegal voted yes.
However the demographics are such that close to 50% is very good and a sign of real progress.
I like living in Donegal, it can be a great place

What has depopulation got to do with it?

26-05-2018 03:44PM

CruelCoin wrote: »

What is it with the whesht and norn-iron counties being a bit backwards?

Northern Irish counties didn't vote. If you're gonna call people backwards, probably best to get your own facts in order.

wakka12 · 26-05-2018 03:44PM

South east dublin unsurprisingly highest YES vote so far in the country at 77.1%.
All other dublin constituencies following closely behind it, the lowest so far being dublin bay north at 74.7% in favour of repeal

Mushy · 26-05-2018 03:45PM

joe40 wrote: »

Benteke wrote: »

Donegal letting the country down again, I expect nothing more from the backward county

Thats not called for and is just an ignorant statement.
Nearly 50% voted yes, more in the urban centres. Donegal is a big county with a large rural population that has suffered terribly from depopulation.
Plenty of people in Donegal voted yes.
However the demographics are such that close to 50% is very good and a sign of real progress.
I like living in Donegal, it can be a great place

And don't forget the town's in a different constituency that voted yes. I will cling on to that when I go back later in the year. Great county!

Sheeps · 26-05-2018 03:45PM

Why are people on a witch hunt for counties who share a different trend in their stance on this?

joe40 · 26-05-2018 03:45PM

CruelCoin wrote: »

joe40 wrote: »

Thats not called for and is just an ignorant statement.
Nearly 50% voted yes, more in the urban centres. Donegal is a big county with a large rural population that has suffered terribly from depopulation.
Plenty of people in Donegal voted yes.
However the demographics are such that close to 50% is very good and a sign of real progress.
I like living in Donegal, it can be a great place

What has depopulation got to do with it?

Young people leaving. In the exit poll over 65 were just about 40% yes.

blueser · 26-05-2018 03:46PM

Deusexmachina wrote: »

you referenced other comments in justification.

Read my post again; I didn't justify anything. I said the gloating on here, which is distasteful btw, isn't as bad as surmising on a poster being aborted. Which it isn't.

CruelCoin · 26-05-2018 03:46PM

Omackeral wrote: »

Northern Irish counties didn't vote. If you're gonna call people backwards, probably best to get your own facts in order.

There is a connaught-ulster constituency, which perfectly fits what i said (i lump donnegal in with the norns).

Doesn't change the facts though. Still backwards.

Justin Credible Darts · 26-05-2018 03:46PM

how long will the no brigade continue to whine and moan and not accept the vote of the people of Ireland ?

I reckon they will still be crying, making excuses, and trying to belittle others for months to come.

Exit poll: The post referendum thread. No electioneering.

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